@article{ref1,
title="Palliative medicine and hospice care movement Down Under: Palliative care in Australia and New Zealand",
journal="Onkologe",
year="2016",
author="Richter, K.K. and Sommerfeldt, A. and Wedding, U.",
volume="22",
number="7",
pages="499-506",
abstract="Australia and New Zealand have a long and rich tradition of hospice care and palliative medicine. Hospices were originally founded by Christian nuns. Today, being centrally coordinated, care is founded on evidence-based principles and funding is divided to meet the needs of the people served. Current challenges include the rapidly aging population which suffers from a variety of chronic nonmalignant diseases, the assurance of adequate financing, and the debate on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. In Germany as in Down Under, a future-oriented uniform strategy is necessary in order to ensure that palliative care --with participation from all palliative medicine and hospice programs --is recognized as an integral part of the healthcare system, is promoted in aged and nursing home care, and is delivered to ethnic minorities in a culturally sensitive. © 2016, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.<p /><p>Language: de</p>",
language="de",
issn="0947-8965",
doi="10.1007/s00761-016-0068-7",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00761-016-0068-7"
}